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Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless Horseman. Considered an outsider by the local inhabitants, he falls in love with the eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, but has to contend with the loutish Brom Bones for her affections. Then one night Crane’s mounting problems come to a head when he finally experiences the horrors of the supernatural first-hand… A classic tale of American Gothic, ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ has found a central place in the collective imagination and inspired many adaptations. Also included in this volume is a selection of some of Irving’s most celebrated ghostly tales, such as ‘The Phantom Island’ and ‘The Devil and Tom Walker’.

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The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the spectre bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy - these witty, perceptive and captivating tales range from fantasy to romance.

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A collection of timeless short stories by Washington Irving, this elegantly designed, jacketed hardcover edition includes his two best-known classics, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” Washington Irving’s short stories have captured the imaginations of generations since they were originally published in the early nineteenth century. His stories were sometimes chilling, and sometimes reflect society, but they are consistently filled with adventure and a joy to read. Irving’s timeless characters like Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle, are among the earliest of truly American literary figures, and remain required reading for students of literature, and have earned their place in the canon of must-reads for those that enjoy a good story. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the series include: The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; The Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women; Wuthering Heights; Peter Pan; Persuasion; Aesop’s Fables; The Constitution of the United States and Selected Writings; Crime and Punishment; Dracula; Great Expectations; The Iliad; Irish and Fairy Folk Tales; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The War of the Worlds; The Time Machine and The Invisible Man; and The Alchemist.

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Las motivaciones de los viajes de Bonneville han permanecido oscuras gracias a que no se han hallado los diarios originales en los que trabajó Irving para compilar sus aventuras. Si planeó sus expediciones para amasar una fortuna en el comercio de pieles, para satisfacer su espíritu aventurero, o para espiar para el gobierno, es algo que aun hoy es un misterio. Sus enemigos afirmaron lo primero, Irving lo segundo, y el mismo Bonneville apuntaba a veces a lo tercero.Lo que sí es una verdad incontestable es que Bonneville abrió la ruta definitiva hacia el oeste gracias a la cual, 20años después, los colonos pudieron protagonizar el periodo más célebre ?y que más tinta y celuloide ha tirado? de la Historia de EEUU: La Conquista del Oeste.Hay que destacar en favor de Bonneville dos virtudes no menores, la primera es que mientras él estuvo al mando de la expedición no murió ningún hombre y, la segunda, es que en sus encuentros con los nativos siempre supo evitar las hostilidades

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Conocido en España principalmente por sus " Cuentos de la Alhambra " (obra publicada también en esta colección), Washington Irving (1783-1859) es el escritor romántico estadounidense más popular junto con Edgar Allan Poe. Prueba de ello es la continuada vigencia hasta hoy en forma de adaptaciones a la pantalla y ediciones ilustradas de los cuatro cuentos reunidos en este volumen, todos los cuales tienen su origen en su afición por las historias marcadas por elementos y atmósferas sobrenaturales y misteriosos: La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow, con su enigmático y espectral jinete, Rip van Winkle atrapado en su inesperado sueño, El novio cadáver que regresa del otro mundo en busca de su amada, y por último el truculento relato que lleva por título El diablo y Tom Hawker.

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Narrado en primera persona por el propio autor, nos cuenta cómo inicia un viaje por tierras andaluzas que le llevará a Granada. Allí se instala y conoce a varios personajes que le irán relatando los cuentos y leyendas en torno a la Alhambra y a su pasado hispanomusulmán. El libro avanza además por el presente (1829), correspondiente a la realidad que vive el autor. Esto le permite mostrar un rico cuadro de la Granada de la época, de sus calles, sus gentes, sus costumbres, etc.

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Publicada en 1809, esta novela satírica fue escrita, supuestamente, por un viejo cascarrabias llamado Diedrich Knickerbocker(heterónimo del autor). El mismo Irving participó en una especie de campaña de marketing viral del libro, escribiendo anuncios en los periódicos de Nueva York en los que se buscaba al tal Knickerbocker.Contado desde el punto de vista de Knickerbocker, este libro es una crónica que abarca cincuenta años, comenzando en la década de 1600, de la historia de la ciudad Nueva York bajo el gobierno holandés. Novela hilarante y tremendamente entretenida.Tal fue su influecia que los neoyorkinos pasaron a conocerse como " Knickerbocker". No hay nada que se le parezca en la literatura americana temprana y Dickens, entre otros, tuvo un especial interés por esta obra.

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Aquí encontrarás tres misteriosos relatos, tres joyas de la literatura universal para leer al calor de la chimenea en las frías noches de otoño. Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving y Nikolái Gógol, tres terroríficos autores que no te dejarán dormir: La caída de la casa Usher, Rip van Winkle y Vi.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.'Featuring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and Rip Van Winkle', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving's reputation as one of America's foremost authors. Irving's timeless characters, including Ichabod Crane, Rip Van Winkle and the headless Hessian trooper, jostle for space alongside 31 equally atmospheric and lyrical works in this haunting anthology from one of America's most distinctive literary voices.

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'We were ushered into this banqueting scene with the sound of minstrelsy, the old harper being seated on a stool beside the fireplace and twanging his instrument with a vast deal more power than melody. Never did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances.' First published in 1820 in Irving’s masterpiece, The Sketch Book, The Christmas Dinner is a charming tale by the great American writer behind such timeless classics as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Painting the scene of a Christmas dinner spent at the table of Bracebridge Hall, a countryside manor, the merry songs and stories of the dinner table echo with jollity of Christmases long past. (Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas, a small refugee charity. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book?)

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.’ Featuring ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’, this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving’s reputation as one of America’s foremost authors. Irving’s timeless characters, including Ichabod Crane, Rip Van Winkle and the headless Hessian trooper, jostle for space alongside 31 equally atmospheric and lyrical works in this haunting anthology from one of America’s most distinctive literary voices.

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There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all stories in this region of shadows relate to one particularly dreadful spectre - the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.Washington Irving's comic horror story is the best known of this collection of stories, observations and sketches written on his travels around Britain and America in the eighteenth century. Also includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'Little Britain'.

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow includes an Introduction and Afterword by Charles L. Grant.Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrifying unlucky travellers.Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories....Until late one night, walking home through Wiley''s swamp, he finds that maybe they''re not just stories.What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands?

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Ichabod Crane, un atildado maestro de escuela, es trasladado a Sleepy Hollow, o el Valle Dormido, lugar famoso por las leyendas de fantasmas, espectros y espíritus que habitan el mismo. Profundamente molesto por su estancia en el Valle, rodeado de campes

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Prototipo de historiador romántico, cosmopolita y viajero infatigable, el norteamericano Washington Irving (1783-1859) encarna la personalidad inquieta y polifacética del hombre del siglo XIX. Llevado por sus intereses a Europa, y tras residir durante un tiempo en Inglaterra y Francia, Irving llegaría a España, como agregado de embajada, en 1826. El éxito de sus libros, de corte romántico, sobre Cristóbal Colón y la conquista del reino nazarí le permitió instalarse en Granada. Fruto de esa experiencia son los ?Cuentos de la Alambra?, volumen publicado inicialmente en Londres en 1832 y ampliado y revisado en la posterior edición neoyorquina. La obra, un clásico, combina las tradiciones moras con las cristianas a través de una serie de cuentos y esbozos que recrean el pasado y reflejan también el presente desde el que escribía el autor.

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Formato: Epub Adobe DRMWashington Irving (1783-1859) fue quizás el primer escritor en exhibir rasgos típicos que diferenciarían a la literatura norteamericana de la inglesa. Cuando su talento alcanzaba la madurez se trasladó a España y en el monasterio de El Escorial, estudió la literatura relativa al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo, cuyo fruto fueron La vida y viajes de Cristóbal Colón, Crónica de la conquista de Granada, Viajes de los compañeros de Colón. Cuentos de la Alhambra (1832) es su último libro. Los Cuentos de la Alhambra son unas auténticas ?mil y una noches? españolas: nadie ha sabido captar ?a vista de pájaro? todas las emociones que se perciben desde lo alto de la fortaleza de la Alhambra, el grácil Generalife, el Darro serpenteante, la emblemática ciudad de Santafé, la vega de Genil y Sierra Nevada.

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Two of Washington Irving's works of short fiction from his 1819-20 work, The Sketch Book Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are among the most enduringly popular of American classics. In his own day, Irving's works were widely read in Britain as well as in America; the English novelist William Makepiece Thackeray described him as 'the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old.' This edition takes notice of transatlantic literary history with an appendix of reviews from American and British newspapers, and by printing in facing page format the American and British versions of 'Traits of Indian Character' (which differed from each other in a variety of interesting ways). Also included are an excerpt from Irving's first major work, A History of New York; excerpts from a key source that Irving drew on for Rip Van Winkle and a selection of illustrations showing some of the ways in which this character was imagined in nineteenth-century America. With a concise but wide-ranging introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this edition is ideally suited for course use.This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.

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In Irving's great work, The Sketch Book, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the pumpkin-topped Headless Horseman, ancestor to countless horror film antiheroes. In addition to 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', The Sketch Book touches on cultural and historical concerns that remain compelling, thanks to Irving's modern outlook and impressive foresight.This new edition, with an introduction from Elizabeth L. Bradley, demonstrates how inextricably Irving's writings are woven into the fabric of American culture - high and low.

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There is magic and mystery surrounding the vale of Sleepy Hollow. It is home to a host of ghostly sounds and goblin spectres, none more infamous than the Headless Horseman. This figure rides out in the witching hour of night. If one is not careful, a traveller can lose everything in one evening – their wits, their heart, their head… The foolish school teacher, Ichabod Crane, is besotted with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel. Surely there can be nothing to stand in the way of his designs on her fortune. Sadly for him, imagination is a dangerous thing in Sleepy Hollow, and Katrina is in the sights of another who claims to have bettered the Horseman in a race. Which suitor will succeed and which is destined to become part of Sleepy Hollow’s legend forevermore?

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A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who comes to live in Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch settlement near the Hudson River. It is a place that abounds with local superstitions, including one concerning a headless horseman. Crane’s eye is caught by Katrina van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and he starts to court her. This behaviour provokes the ire of another would-be-suitor, Brom Bones, a renowned village prankster. At a party, Crane confesses his love for Katrina, who rejects him. On his way home, he encounters the ‘horseman’, who hurls his head at Crane. Ichabod Crane is never heard of again. The only traces that remained of him were his horse, saddle, hat and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. What did happen to Ichabod Crane that night, and who was the Headless Horseman?

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With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own right today. Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new idiom, the 'Literary Picturesque', to accommodate and turn to advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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